Example sentences for: scrutiny

How can you use “scrutiny” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Recent scandals necessitate renewed scrutiny.

  • It discourages close scrutiny and too many questions.

  • Last week President Clinton announced his intent to use the line-item veto on some provisions of the budget and tax legislation just enacted, but by today's accounts, several days of scrutiny revealed that this was easier said than done--the WP reports, for instance, that a tax break concerning employee stock ownership plans and another concerning Amtrak were dropped because they had been agreed to during the budget negotiations with Congress.

  • It says we all warrant skeptical self-scrutiny, and it warns us that this scrutiny, being unnatural, is very hard.

  • (If you really want to see the so-called "death stare," click .) The conceit, of course, is that careful scrutiny of these images may reveal something important about JFK's assassination.


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